From my understanding the hard drive that held the post from neuro mancer was broken/damaged beyond recovery (reasonable expense recovery I'll ammend).

When Mr. Lester made the post about having all of BrainTalk on disc, it was some time after we moved to the new forums. Therefore I can only assume the backup was for the data on the "new" forums.

Now back to my ammendment, there are ways to extract data from damaged hard drives. It is very very expensive and has zero guarantees of successful data recovery.

So let's assume somebody does sue for the data and the hard drive is turned over to that person. They most likely won't have either the funding, or know how to get the data from the hard drive.

Short story, I don't believe the data can be recovered from the neuro mancer database.

Oh and I'd also like to know what's up with the Artistic Expression compilation.